Rabbi Chanan Atlas – Both Ends of the Rope: Reflections on Mainstream Orthodoxy

Rabbi Chanan Atlas
Both Ends of the Rope: Reflections on Mainstream Orthodoxy

Where might UK mainstream orthodoxy be headed? Have recent events challenged how modern orthodoxy is perceived and how it will develop? Is modern orthodoxy a compromise or an ideal towards which to aspire?
These questions and more will be discussed.

Wednesday 9th August 2017 8.15pm
Bnei Akiva Bayit

About Rabbi Chanan AtlasRabbi Chanan Atlas spent many years of Torah study at the Har Etzyon Yeshiva combined with academic studies of Mathematics, Economics and Philosophy at the OUI. He served in a combat unit in the IDF and is a reserve Army Commander. Rabbi Atlas sat on the National Board of Jewish Education in South Africa; he headed a Jewish Leadership programme at IDC Herzliya and taught at the David Cardozo Academy in Jerusalem. He has also worked at Rabbi Riskin’s Straus-Amiel Institute, training young Rabbis for the Diaspora. Former Rabbi of Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation in South Africa and Birmingham Central Synagogue in the United Kingdom, Rabbi Chanan Atlas is currently serving as the Rabbi of Yeshurun Hebrew Congregation in Cheadle, Gatley where he lives with his wife Nechama and their five children.